All Maria Montessori Quotes
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori
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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
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